Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief A battle for peace
Percy Jackson and the Lighting Theif by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson: The Lighting Thief Book Review Published by Miramax Books in on July 1, 2005, Rick Riordan had created Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief. The book had received tons of publicity in the middle of 2005. The Percy Jackson series is full of action, adventure, and romance with its first book being the most successful of the bunch. After its release it got its own movie and sequel film.
Percy Jackson, a young boy who grew up in the heart of New York who lives a normal life with his mom Sally Jackson and her husband (Percy's Step Father) Gabriel "Gabe" Ugliano. Along with his mother and disrespectful step father, Percy goes to Goode High school with his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy's life was normal, go to school, go home, get mad at his step father, repeat until one day he goes on a field
trip with Grover to a Greek Museum where Percy's life becomes a whole lot clearer.
While at the museum, Percy starts to have his ADHD while reading Greek text, however it translates the words from Greek to English. After using this ability (They come from his father, Posieden) to answer a question about who the hero in the picture was (this was forshadowing to him because it's a picture of Perseus, a Greek hero who fought for Poseidon). Blown away that his ADHD text for him, he went down the hall to get some air and ran into his teacher Ms. Dods who turned into a Fury, a demon like thing, and ran away.
Within the story they are troubled with many hardships which start with Percy getting framed for stealing Zeus' lighting bolt, to having to fight Medusa and later getting stuck in a lotus club. Along with many dangers there is also tons of plot twists and romance